Ommegang Hennepin Yeast?

Can the yeast from a bottle of "Ommegang Hennepin" Saison style Belgian Ale be stepped up several times and used in a clone brew with good results?

Anyone used this yeast? I love the beer!!!!!

What other, if any, yeast will ferment this dry, in a Saison while retaining all the Belgian attributes?

-Tom

I have used both store bought saison yeast, and grown yeast from a bottle. Both work great and tasted delicioso. Its not to hard to grow the yeast cultivated from bottles.

I understand yeast cultivation practices, for the most part.

But I understand some breweries use a different yeast to bottle condition and carbonate than the actual yeast used in production of the beer. A generic yeast that imparts little flavor to the finished beer for example.

I'm wondering if the yeast sediment in the bottom of the bottle is the same yeast used at the start of fermentation in the Ommegang beers.

-Tom